clorox bleach in diesel

I would not start the engine.. Find your fuel tank and look under your coach.. Many large tanks such as yours has a pipe plug on the bottom for draining the tank.. If you are mechanically inclined you can do it yourself but it is a little messy.. Get a empty 55 gallon drum to pour the fuel in and a large drain pan and a funnel.. How much do you think is in the tank?.. I would get it out of there within 72 hours as bleach is highly corrosive..

I'd do about the same as the previous post. Lean the MH to one side without starting and syphon as much as possible back out. Put a gallon of water in the tank and syphon it and the diluted bleach out. Do this several times to where the water no longer smells like bleach. The little bit of water that you cannot get out will be caught by the filters.

OK, another opinion:

Assume you have not started the coach.

Use your jacks to lean the coach front/back AND side/side so that the fuel fill is the "low point".

Buy as many feet of clear vinyl hose as it takes to go down the filler neck to the bottom of the tank AND to the ground. Secure a weight to one end of the hose (like a fishing weight that you attach with wire through one/two holes very close to the end of the hose.

Let the coach sit for at least 2 hours so that the water/Clorox migrates to the low point. Feed the hose into the bottom of the tank. Start a siphon and capture all of it in a clear glass container. If you can remove all of it, you are good to go.

If not, look up "Fuel Polisher". They clean contaminated fuel for a living.

Definately talk to a diesel mechanic, but what about adding a couple gallons water to the tank to dilute the bleach even more? Maybe that would diminish the effects, but you'll have to change a few filters to remove the water.

Roger,
Help me out here. I am seeing your fuel fill door just behind your roadside steer tire. I am seeing your water service bay just in front of your roadside dual rear wheel. Unless I am mistaken, it would be hard to do what you did since the fuel tank appears to be in the front and the gravity fill appears to be near the rear. Is your coach of a different design that this setup I found? And yes I realize that I am looking at a later year coach than yours. Do you have some other type of fuel fill in your water service bay area or is your fuel tank near the rear instead of being near the front?

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Yes, it would go to the bottom of the fuel tank, BUT (and this is a huge BUT), absolutely NOTHING currently in the fuel tank dare go to the engine. YOU MUST not only drain the tank of EVERYTHING in it, you must also make sure that the tank itself has not begun rusting, for if it has, that rusting will likely continue apace even after the bleach is removed, so you MUST remove the fuel tank from the vehicle for cleaning and inspection.

Yeah, I know, this is a horribly expensive penalty for such a simple error. But trust us on this one, don't make it very much worse by neglecting to do this right. Dropping the tank is going to cost you a few hundred bucks, and there is simply no way around that. If you don't do it right, start saving your pennies for a bill that will easily run into the thousands and perhaps even into the tens of thousands, depending on your rig.

How did this happen?

I would NOT start the engine and I would definitely get the tank drained.

Paul

would it go to the sump in the tank so you could be drained out if it goes to the bottem?

I got curious about the bleach in fuel and did some google research.. It seems all the pros from wiki to Ehow strongly recommend not to start the engine and immediately drain the tank. Corrosion starts within hours.
I stand corrected. Drop the tank and clean it out.

Can't be any better in a diesel tank.

Bleach in a gas fuel tank.